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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 12

Asking Questions and Finding Facts

Ask good questions, choose texts and learn topic words.

What your child practices

Using what you know, asking basic questions, choosing texts and facts for a purpose, and using topic words.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.28; 2.46 · asking questions and choosing a text that answers them

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Start with a question, like “What do owls eat?”
  2. Choose a text about your topic, like an information book.
  3. Topic words belong together: planet and star go with space.

Example: Your question is “What do owls eat?” Which fact is most useful? “Owls eat mice.” or “Owls have feathers.” Your question is about food. Only one fact tells what owls eat. Answer: Owls eat mice.

Asking Questions and Finding Facts in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 11 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Text Features and before Media Detectives.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which source has real facts about a topic?

    • an information book
    • a comic about a talking pizza
    • a made-up story about dragons

  2. Question 2

    Which text might help you learn how plants grow?

    • a song about trucks
    • a joke book
    • an information book about plants

  3. Question 3

    Which word belongs with the topic “water”?

    • engine
    • button
    • stream

  4. Question 4

    Which is a question word?

    • blue
    • the
    • why

  5. Question 5

    What is a topic word for a text about plants?

    • roots
    • wheels
    • pillow

  6. Question 6

    You can make a web to…

    • measure a room
    • fix a shoe
    • show how ideas connect

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